The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-05-20

THE Michigan House has passed bill
making employers liable for damages for
accidents to employees caused by the negl-
gence Of a fellow employe or defects in ma
chinery.
The other evening at Fort Gibson, I. T.,
two soldiers, James Adams and J. Z.
Gladon, were seining for fish in the Grand
river, when they were caught in swift
current and were swept under.
THE Union seed drill works OF Selby,
Starr a Co, Peoria, H., burned the other
night. Total loss, s100,0O0; insurance, S5O,-
600.
Sacramento, Cal, who owns 10000 acres
of land in Oregon and $1,000 in Nevada, has
assigned to Hayes, Carrack & Co., Of Oak
land, Cal His liabilities are S45O,OJO
The condition Of the Michigan wheat
crop is reported as excellent.
Two barb wire fence manufacturing
firms failed in Chicago on the 10th-Sher-
man q Marsh, 81 Dearborn street, with
liabilities estimated at S44S. 600 and the as
sets at S256 600, and Schnebel q Co, next
door to Sherman & Marsh, making assign
ments to Noble B. judah. The liabilities
/ Of SchuebeI & Co. are S303, 600 and the as
sets SlS30OO.
AT Washington, Ind, recently James A
/ Cunningham was given judgment against
the Evansville & Terre Haute Railway
/ Company for S92, 900 for the burning of his
/ starch factory at Vincennes by sparks from
| a locomotive
THE strike OF the employees of the Calu-
met iron and steel mills, Chicago, has been
declared of.
| WALTER VRoOMAN, of Kansas City, No,
/ socialist and editor of the Labor Organizer,
who was arrested in Allegheny City, Pa,
/ recently, was fined S25 for disorderly con-
duct.
At Chicago on the 11th the long, stubborn
/ fight against I. }. Vail, secretary of the
/ National Trottlng Association, was brought
/ to a close, Vail sending his resignation to
the president of the association.
The Missouri Legislature convened in
special session at Jefferson City on the l1th.
A LETTER from J. d. Garcia to a friend in
| Tucson, Ariz., complains that he is held in
jail at Saharipa, Sonora, Mexico, be-
cause he refused to vote for the prefect re-
Gently.
THE entire business part of Earlville, Ia,
a town OF 1000 inhabitants, thirty seven
miles west of Dubuque, was wiped out by
fire the other night Twenty business
houses, four dwellings, one church and sew
eral barns were destroyed. Loss, S150,O00'
insurance, $500
The schooner Laura Madison, which ar
rived at Umpaqua, Ore, May 10, reports
seeing the ship Ocean King, on May 8
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abandoned. Nothing was known of the
crew.
THE American sugar refinery at Sar
Francisco recently sent 2, 900, 900 pounds Of
sugar to New York over the Canadian Pa
cihc.
IL pursuance of an agreement among the
employers, ten thousand men in the Chi
cago building trades were locked out on th'
14th.
II is positively and officially denied tha
the cashier OF the Wills County Nationa
Bank of Joliet, Ill, has been found in the
least short in his accounts.
CUSTOM officers seized 1l5 cases marked
s'nut oir' on the steamer Rio de Janeiro
which arrived at San Francisco recently
from China, and upon being opened they
were found to contain hcrmeticalIy sealed
cans of opium.
BY the capsizing of a boat recently in the
bay at Milwaukee, Wis, August StrelON
and Ferdinand Rusch, young men, werl
drowned. Herman Fischer, the third oc
cupant Of the boat, swan ashore.
THERE have been hye earthquake shocks
at Nogales, A. T., lately. The heaviest wa
at 5:30 on the morning Of the 14th, ant
caused many clocks in the town to stop.
A TORNADO swept over Gage County
Neb., on the 18th, striking the town Of Blu
Springs. All telegraph wires were down
and only meager reports were at hand
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unroofed. One man at least was struck b.
lightning and instantly killed.
ALL the crew of the Ocean King, burned
and aban doued off Oregon coast, have al
rived at Port Townsend, W. I.
A SPECIAL from Peoria, Ill, of the 13t
, says: 1t is believed here that the whisk
pool viii be reorganized at once. Disti
lers are said to have a big scheme on hand
TIE Supreme Council of the Cathoh
Knights of America concluded It's biennia
, session at Chicago on the 18th. John /
: Coleman, of New Orleans, was elected ST
preme president; C. F. O'Rourke, For
, Wayne, vice president; John Barr Lebs
non, Ky. secretary; NJ. j. O'Brien, Chat
tanoOga, treasurer; J. j. Duffy, Memphis
J. J. McEnery, Brooklyn, and j. a
/ Schwartz, trustees.